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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Elementary Curriculum Choices for 2012-2013 School Year

Wow! July is more than half over already! Even though we have been doing a little school work here and there due to review items, our main school curricula were completed at the end of May. If all goes well, I would like to start easing back into our school starting August 13th. This year I will have a toddler. pre-k, kindergarten, 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 11th grade students. I do not use a "curriculum" for pre-k or kindergarten. Children in those grades do a little bit of letters and numbers, start reading if they are ready, and tag along as they wish for the rest of the subjects. These are the main items we will be using for Elementary Grades this year along with whatever review items come our way.

Essentials In Writing- 5th grade- I discovered this program at our local Homeschool Convention. It is a writing program similar to Math U See. I have high hopes that it is going to be the perfect Writing Curriculum for Nick!

History- We absolutely loved Mystery of History Vol 1 and completed it last year. This year we will be moving on to Mystery of History Vol 2. Our whole family works on this together.

Science- Last year we completed Apologia's Flying Creatures so this year we are moving on to Swimming Creatures! One of our favorite things about this curriculum is the hands on projects and the boys can't wait to see what we will be doing this year.

Latin:

Nick (5th grade) will continue working on Visual Latin. He really enjoys the Visual Latin Dvds and the younger children watch them too although they don't do the worksheets they have learned some Latin too.

I am hoping to have time for this study on artists that I downloaded free (for July) from Confessions of a Homeschooler and would like to do something similar for Composers.

I am really excited about our curriculum for this year and looking forward to whatever else comes our way!

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I am glad you are here. My name is Lisa and I am married to my best friend Art. We have been blessed with 7 children: Chelsea 19, Nicholas 14, Alexander 13, Anthony 11, Christian 9, Lillian 7, and Emelia 5. I am a stay at home home schooling mom and enjoy reading, cooking, baking, scrapbooking, and sewing. I also enjoy reviewing family friendly products and homeschool curriculum. Please leave me any comments or questions you have, or email me if you have a product that you would like reviewed.